4GB Crucial or 4 GB Crucial Ballistix?

booboomfey · 26 May 2007 at 17:44

Hi,
Could somone explain to me the difference to me between the two Crucial memory modules listed below, & should i buy the Ballistix even if i am not into overclocking.
Thanx

Crucial 4GB CT2KIT25664AA667

Crucial 2GB Ballistix BL2KIT12864AA663
£75.19 (buy x2 for 4GB £150.38)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-088-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=144

My NEW SYSTEM BULD includes:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 Rev 3.3
XFX 8800GTS 320MB GPU
Thermaltake Armour Tower VA8003BWS
Arctic Cooler Freezer Pro 7
Thermaltake Toughpower Cable Management 850w
2 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA 2 HDD
Vista Home Premium 64bit
Optiarc AD-717os
Sony DDU-1615 DVD ROM

I will be MOSTLY HD VIDEO editing & more OCCASIONALY gaming :confused:

Will_3rd · 26 May 2007 at 17:47

would remove the competitor

Teal · 26 May 2007 at 21:07

First one is 2x2GB so will only take up two slots, second one uses 1GB modules so will need all 4 slots for 4GB.

Not all motherboards will handle 4 slots fully populated all that well.

It is a bit of a problem though if you want 4GB as not many of the current 2GB modules will overclock well and few boards will drive 4x1GB to high clock rates either.

... oh... remove the competitor link before the mods get to you...

RaiderX · 26 May 2007 at 21:58

The balistix would outperform the normal crucial if overclocking

and

Will_3rd said:
would remove the competitor

lay-z-boy · 26 May 2007 at 21:59

How do you not know what your using your PC for? :confused:

You have you linked to a competitor, which breaks the rules remove the link or the mods with get to it first.

The 4x1gb sticks is the better choice as this stuff is unbeatable for speed and value when overclocked (not hard to either)

booboomfey · 29 May 2007 at 18:07

OOps sorry

Sorry for comp link, i only used it as a memory comparison.

Thanks for your replies guys.

crfrank · 30 May 2007 at 19:52

I've just received 4Gb of Patriot 1066MHz DDR2 - timings are 5-5-5-9 out the box and can be tightened even further...Unfortunately OcUK don't stock it :/

..Hmm - Gibbo, look at Patriot for RAM mate

Good stuff - think they are the principle suppliers for system builders like Alienware for their extreme gaming rigs.

lay-z-boy · 30 May 2007 at 20:58

They used to stock it, dunno what happened, supply and demand i guess.

I bought a few kits, one thing i did notice, 3 out of the 8 i bought were faulty.

robj20 · 31 May 2007 at 07:48

They used to stock Mushkin as well, very hard to find, i want the 4GB Mushkin kit. Come on OCUK get all the memory back.

crfrank · 31 May 2007 at 16:01

Found a UK supplier for the Mushkin 4Gb kit (same place I got my Patriot from) but it's 420 quid mate - it's very good memory to be sure, but I decided in the end for the 2 2Gb Patriot kits as they are fast but quite a lot cheaper, plus the P35 boards can apparently run 4x1Gb sticks fine (at least the Asus P5Ks can).